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WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Ash Carter this week ordered the Defense Finance and Accounting Services to “suspend all efforts to collect reimbursements from affected California National Guard members, effective as soon as practical.” The national commander of the near 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Unit...
Upton VFW Post 5594 has hosted its Run to Remember 5K for seven years, but this year is the first time runners donned race bibs featuring the names of fallen service members. The addition was a logistical decision for the race held earlier this month. In past years, adhesive tags did not work out as well, according to Post Commander Shawn Craig, an...
Northeastern University expanded its commitment to student veterans on Monday afternoon, officially opening a Veterans of Foreign Wars post during a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial. The post is named in honor of Robert R. Pirelli, AS’01, an Army Staff Sgt. from Franklin, Massachusetts, who was killed in Iraq in 2007. It is the first post ...
VFW Post 3360 Quartermaster Cliff Bauer’s meetings with his county VA officials have become a regular occurrence. Bauer, who gave Erin Clady, a veterans service officer for Defiance County, Ohio, $2,000 last September, says the money will help fund the Veterans Section Improvement Project at the Riverside Cemetery in Defiance. “A lot...
In Tillamook County, Ore., veterans and active-duty troops with children can access free childcare once per month thanks to Post 2848 in Tillamook. According to Post Commander Jim Allenbrand, the Post partnered with Tillamook’s Ocean Breeze Baptist Church beginning in July to offer free childcare on the first Friday of each month. “The ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.– The VFW has teamed up with Lida360, an international brand strategy firm, to provide service members and veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce with an opportunity to learn about personal branding and strategies for navigating the job search process. Join us on Thursday, October 20, 2016, at 2 p.m. CDT for the free...
Members of Post 3762 in Washington Court House, Ohio, donated U.S. flags to Fayette Progressive School and Fayette Progressive Industries in September. According to Post Quartermaster Bob Malone, the Post donates about $3,000 worth of flags around Fayette County each year. He said the Post has been doing this for about 20 years. With 220 members, n...
MAROSTICA, Italy – Egidio Girardi of San Luca was about 10 years old on Christmas Eve 1943 when he and his brother saw an American airplane crash near their home in the mountains of northern Italy. The young men rushed to find the plane and found U.S. Army Air Corps Pilot 2nd Lt. Jules J. Hymel dangling by his parachute in a chestnut tree. Th...
More than 150 VFW Posts held events Oct. 8 to help kick off VFW’s national mental wellness campaign. “A Day to Change Direction” is part of the overarching initiative, launched by Give an Hour, to “change the greater culture” surrounding mental health. VFW’s goal for the day, which included 179 Posts nationwide,...
In an effort to “honor the dead,” members of Post 1307 in Elgin, Ill., hosted a ceremony memorializing a local soldier who was killed in action in Vietnam 50 years ago. Bob Getz, a member of the Post and Vietnam veteran, was inspired to organize the gathering after attending a similar ceremony for someone from his former unit last year....
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